Ruins Quotations | Page 3

There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.

Don't let the idiots ruin your day.

Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

I don't think anything ruins that outing. But (the errors) ended up hurting us. That's baseball. It happens and it sucks and it's terrible, but it happens. That's why the game rips your heart out sometimes.

(However) all plans for exploring the outer solar system, more or less, are in complete ruins at the moment.

GORGON, n.The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

Sex is the quickest way to ruin a friendship.

He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he said it, I thought it was an outrageous threat. I no longer though it outrageous.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

I know that people's judgments are fast, and in a split second I will ruin it.

Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.

Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.

If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves.

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang)

He doesn’t anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi) Yes, I’m more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)

Tell me, Acheron, is there anyone you will ever trust enough to release your soul? (Artemis) You know better. You’ve tutored me too well on how vicious women are. On how much love ruins and destroys. Thank you for the lesson, Artemis. It was just what I needed. And I assure you, it’s one I’ll never forget. (Acheron)

Yes, he’s like a rash for which there’s no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience. He should have been named Herpes rather than ZT. Or maybe just Herpes Z, since he’s a very special irritant. (Arik)

Looks like I’m going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)

Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them instead.

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

Normally I can't watch playback. I can't watch anything because I know that it's so rough and there's going to be effects that are added, there's going to be sound effects, there's going to be so much stuff that happens between this point and that finished product that it just ruins the illusion for me.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

You can still function as a living ruin.

Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

An artist took that picture and made a painting of Chris carrying the girl. It has the ruins of the Trade Center in the background. It's a great painting. I was lucky to get a lithograph of the painting. That picture has made its way around the country.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong.

Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan.

If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation by Christ stands in direct relation to this ruin, as the remedy to the disease.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

Politics ruins the character.

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.